Phasing out coal-based plants: The way forward

As far as India is concerned, all our energy is currently being used on how to reach the magical figure of 500 GW.

With the looming threat of climate change, the world, at large, is busy making plans on how to decarbonise. Several strategies have been devised, including plans to go net-zero by a certain identified date, approximately three decades further down the road from today. India too has declared its own date of turning net-zero, which is 2070. Along with this, India has laid down other targets as well, like having a non-fossil generation capacity of 500 GW by 2030, meeting 50 per cent of India’s energy requirements using renewable sources by 2030, reducing emissions intensity by 45 per cent by 2030